Apperances and Illusions (Ttuth according to Plato and Nietzsche)

Since the beginning of human history, men desired to understand the entities that surround them. People who chose the love of knowledge as a way of life asked questions to reveal the unknown. Mankind called these curious people philosophers. They tried to find and define what being is, what human being is, what goodness and badness are that is to say they wanted to understand the ideas and the entities around them. The concepts of …showed first 75 words of 1451 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1451 total…by removing the differences of nature. Namely, truths are the metaphors which people created by dissimulation to survive; however, after regular use people forget that they were metaphors and regard them as truth. Nietzsche deduced that truths are manly created and there is not a recollection but a translation between subjects and objects. In addition, he stated that as being the tool for self preservation, "the desire for truth" turned into a value for mankind.